{"id":1849,"date":"2005-10-31T15:50:31","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T19:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2008-04-16T07:22:50","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T12:22:50","slug":"panic-attacks-the-hallmark-of-panic-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=1849","title":{"rendered":"Panic Attacks: The Hallmark of Panic Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A panic attack is a sudden surge of overwhelming fear that comes without warning and without any obvious reason. It is far more intense than the feeling of being &#8216;stressed out&#8217; that most people experience. Symptoms of a panic attack include:<br \/>\n* racing heartbeat<br \/>\n* difficulty breathing, feeling as though you &#8216;can&#8217;t get enough air&#8217;<br \/>\n* terror that is almost paralyzing<br \/>\n* dizziness, lightheadedness or nausea<br \/>\n* trembling, sweating, shaking<br \/>\n* choking, chest pains<br \/>\n* hot flashes, or sudden chills<br \/>\n* tingling in fingers or toes (&#8216;pins and needles&#8217;)<br \/>\n* fear that you&#8217;re going to go crazy or are about to die <\/em><\/p>\n<p>You probably recognize this as the classic &#8216;flight or fight&#8217; response that human beings experience when we are in a situation of danger. But during a panic attack, these symptoms seem to rise from out of nowhere. They occur in seemingly harmless situations&#8211;they can even happen while you are asleep.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the above symptoms, a panic attack is marked by the following conditions:<br \/>\n* it occurs suddenly, without any warning and without any way to stop it.<br \/>\n* the level of fear is way out of proportion to the actual situation; often, in fact, it&#8217;s completely unrelated.<br \/>\n* it passes in a few minutes; the body cannot sustain the &#8216;fight or flight&#8217; response for longer than that. However, repeated attacks can continue to recur for hours.<br \/>\nFrom the American Psychological Association<!--fe7c0cbbab0f8f249f2f164eaa0e8698-->~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A panic attack is a sudden surge of overwhelming fear that comes without warning and without any obvious reason. It is far more intense than the feeling of being &#8216;stressed out&#8217; that most people experience. Symptoms of a panic attack include: * racing heartbeat * difficulty breathing, feeling as though you &#8216;can&#8217;t get enough air&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-tP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}